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The group says the term is ‘rarely heard in lower courts where many legal professionals seem slow to acknowledge the phenomenon’.

The group carried a shirt bearing the names of members as part of the 'Shirts of Our Back' campaigning

“We’re here campaigning against parental alienation, where children are turned against their parents or stopped from having contact, and so on, because they [children] have no voice through the family courts and neither have we,” said Andrew, who is currently fighting for rights to see his youngest child.

“There needs to be reform for all of the agencies to incorporate parental alienation, and through schools, contact centres. Schools spend massive amounts of time with children, even more than social services.”

D.A.D.S has been set up to both campaign about parental alienation and give support to parents and family members unable to see their children.

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“Members of our group span various continents and have joined the campaign with one goal, and that goal is to make the voices of the children be heard,” according to the group’s official Facebook page.

The group hopes to make 'parental alienation' illegal

“Our goal is to change a system that has not been updated to reflect the changing times and to bring hope to families in their agonizing journey to reunite with their loved ones.”